2024 has 83 elections globally across 78 countries. We won’t see that many again until 2048. Integrity Institute fellow Katie Harbath and co-author Ana Khizanishvili share what these numbers from global elections tell us about the future of democracy.

Integrity Institute fellow Dylan Moses argues the importance of Section 230 and explains the legal nuts and bolts of Gonzalez and Taamneh.

Integrity Institute fellow Karan Lala argues that the nature of the internet makes moderating every bit of speech impossible. Holding platforms responsible for every dangerous statement that slips through their nets will have a ruinous chilling effect on modern discourse.

We have analyzed the misinformation amplification factor for Facebook and Twitter ahead of the Nigerian election. We find the trend we saw in the US, with both platforms significantly amplifying misinformation and Twitter more so than Facebook.

Reporting from the WSJ on internal discussions at Facebook show internally, Facebook considers the top content lists this quarter to have “no low quality content.” Contrary to that, we see little change in the number of posts that fail basic media literacy checks.

Integrity Institute members Alice Hunsberger, Kristen Murdock, and Jen Weedon offer their guide to preventing & reacting to burnout – an issue that impacts many working professionals but may hit those working in integrity, trust & safety especially hard.

For the 2022 US midterm elections, we have been tracking how misinformation is amplified on large platforms to show how much additional engagement one should expect to get on the platforms for posting misinformation.

We are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

Explaining middleware, a new approach to content moderation that puts power back in the hands of users

The Integrity Institutes analysis of Facebook's Widely Viewed Content Report for Q2 2022. We dig into the report to extract every possible insight and piece of data into how Facebook is performing and to what extent harmful or spammy content is making it to their top lists.

Social Spam is backed by a microcosm of the modern economy. In order to understand this world, I infiltrated one of the largest communities for spammers with my real Facebook account. Here’s what I learned.

When studying content and behavior violations on platforms, different surfaces with equal numbers of consumers are not necessarily alike